A Birthday Post

Capricorn Season Themes:

Agency, Discipline, Tenacity, Ambition, Alchemy, Legacy

Inviting me to:

Cap Sun: Celebrate Success

Virgo Moon: Prioritize Creative Ideas

Leo Rising: Build Better Habits

 

Something I love about my birthday, is that I get to celebrate my own personal new year right along with our astronomical one. I love that it’s in the final week of the calendar, where time doesn’t really seem to exist, and everyone for the most part is checked out, cozied up, and envisioning the new year ahead.

2025 was interesting to say the least. I feel like I’ve gotten to the end of a roadtrip I took in a convertible with my hair down: eyes tearstained from the wind, and hair tangled. In the same sense, I feel like 2025 was an Everything Shower; I have shed skin, blood, relationships, limiting beliefs and patterns that were not benefiting me. Being the year of the Snake, this shedding was not always comfortable, and at times, left me quite vulnerable to the elements.

Historically at the end of my year, I do a Tarot and Archetype spread that outlines my year ahead. In the past, I would dive deep into the pull, and devise a set of personal expectations that required rigorous routines that almost always fell apart because they felt like punishment when I stuck to them.

I didn’t do that this year. This year, I tried a lot of new and different things, and while they weren’t all rewarding in ways I’d identify as success in a traditional manner (work/money related), they were rewarding in a way that was successful in a spiritual and emotional growth. An ‘upgrade’ if you will. Here are some examples:

I chose to participate in local community

I allowed myself to be open to friendships

I traveled away from home

I trusted people to care for my animals

I tried dating

Here’s what I learned: I have made the most of living in Florida, but the time to move on was yesterday. Of the friendships I forged, very few actually grew roots (and that's okay). Traveling away from home was fun, and I’d like to do it more often without activating feelings of abandoning my animals, but in leaving them in the care of others, they did just fine. As far as dating- that was the biggest lesson. I learned that I am ready to be vulnerable in a relationship, however the pool of people who have done the work like I have is incredibly small. Letting people show me who they really are, and then choosing to walk away was not my favorite, but it was the most rewarding. I didn’t try to fix anyone, or teach them how to be ‘better’. I just believed them when they said they didn’t deserve me.

 

I’ve spent almost all of 2025 taking a Final Exam. I have learned a lot of skills, unlearned a lot of limiting beliefs, identified numerous red flags, and solidified what my personal preferences, morals, and ethics are. The final exam has been the universe presenting me with lessons that I have seen before, but responding differently to them is how I passed the test. For 2026, I’m choosing to ‘Not Try So Hard’, and I intend to spend this year deciding and making moves to get out of Florida- It has certainly served its purpose.